In the world of database architecture, the need to dynamically create complex objects conflicts with the demand for subsecond response time. Oracle's answer to this dilemma is the materialized view.

Although tables in SQL databases typically contain massive amounts of data, they’re not always in a format that can be used by data analysts. The data records in these tables need to be filtered ...

PROC SQL allows you to specify the ORDER BY clause in the CREATE VIEW statement. Every time a view is accessed, its data are sorted and displayed as specified by the ORDER BY clause. This sorting on ...